A New Year

Seeing this favorite on the Writer's Almanac today, I just had to share it with my friends on the internet.  It feels so right and in step with my current personal thoughts. 

Happy New Year 

ERF

New Year Resolve

byMay Sarton

The time has come

To stop allowing the clutter
To clutter my mind
Like dirty snow,
Shove it off and find
Clear time, clear water.

Time for a change,
Let silence in like a cat
Who has sat at my door
Neither wild nor strange
Hoping for food from my store
And shivering on the mat.

Let silence in.
She will rarely speak or mew,
She will sleep on my bed
And all I have ever been
Either false or true
Will live again in my head.

For it is now or not
As old age silts the stream,
To shove away the clutter,
To untie every knot,
To take the time to dream,
To come back to still water.


Read about the  Interesting life and work of May Sarton

“Writers end up writing stories--

or rather, stories' shadows

--and they're grateful if they can, 

but it is not enough. 

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”

—Joy Williams